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Auction archive: Lot number 99

A VERY RARE MASSIVE CARVED FAMILLE ROSE REVOLVING VASE

Auction 15.06.1999
15 Jun 1999
Estimate
£80,000 - £120,000
ca. US$127,678 - US$191,517
Price realised:
£331,500
ca. US$529,065
Auction archive: Lot number 99

A VERY RARE MASSIVE CARVED FAMILLE ROSE REVOLVING VASE

Auction 15.06.1999
15 Jun 1999
Estimate
£80,000 - £120,000
ca. US$127,678 - US$191,517
Price realised:
£331,500
ca. US$529,065
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE MASSIVE CARVED FAMILLE ROSE REVOLVING VASE qianlong four-character seal mark and of the period Intricately carved and pierced around the outer wall with a continuous rocky landscape containing a variety of leafy and blossoming trees below swirling clouds and a single soaring multi-coloured phoenix, the pierced surface revealing the revolving cylindrical interior exquisitely enamelled with a waterside landscape with auspicious birds, including geese, cranes, blackbirds, orioles, pheasants, peacocks, herons, swallows, pigeons and mandarin ducks, the shoulder with a narrow yellow-ground band of leafy floral scrolls, below a wider band of scrolling stylised peonies reserved on a ruby-red sgraffiato ground rising to the revolving neck with a similar band containing gilt qing musical stones with suspended tassels and two archaistic dragon handles, below a pale green honey-comb-ground cloud collar with iron-red bats, the mouth rim with a band of scrolling flowers on a yellow ground between gilt borders, the base with floral scrolls on a ruby-red sgraffiato ground, above a narrow key-pattern band and a yellow-ground floral border at the foot, the interior and the underside of the base enamelled in pale turquoise, crack at base stabilised, small loss to base of handles 24 in. (63 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 99
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A VERY RARE MASSIVE CARVED FAMILLE ROSE REVOLVING VASE qianlong four-character seal mark and of the period Intricately carved and pierced around the outer wall with a continuous rocky landscape containing a variety of leafy and blossoming trees below swirling clouds and a single soaring multi-coloured phoenix, the pierced surface revealing the revolving cylindrical interior exquisitely enamelled with a waterside landscape with auspicious birds, including geese, cranes, blackbirds, orioles, pheasants, peacocks, herons, swallows, pigeons and mandarin ducks, the shoulder with a narrow yellow-ground band of leafy floral scrolls, below a wider band of scrolling stylised peonies reserved on a ruby-red sgraffiato ground rising to the revolving neck with a similar band containing gilt qing musical stones with suspended tassels and two archaistic dragon handles, below a pale green honey-comb-ground cloud collar with iron-red bats, the mouth rim with a band of scrolling flowers on a yellow ground between gilt borders, the base with floral scrolls on a ruby-red sgraffiato ground, above a narrow key-pattern band and a yellow-ground floral border at the foot, the interior and the underside of the base enamelled in pale turquoise, crack at base stabilised, small loss to base of handles 24 in. (63 cm.) high

Auction archive: Lot number 99
Auction:
Datum:
15 Jun 1999
Auction house:
Christie's
London, King Street
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